Reflections

Venetia Porter, Charles Tripp, Natasha Morris

Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa' brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa is rich and vibrant. Whether living in their countries of birth or in diaspora, the featured artists are part of the globalised world of art. Here we see artists responding to and making work about their present, histories, traditions and cultures, reflecting on a part of the world that has experienced extraordinary change in living memory.00The British Museum has been acquiring the work of Middle Eastern and North African artists since the 1980s, and the collection ? principally works on paper ? is one of the most extensive in the public sphere. Collected within the context of a museum of history, the works offer insights into the nature of civil societies, the...